Sporting Digest: Football

Wednesday 18 May 1994 23:02 BST

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FRANZ BECKENBAUER was fined DM10,000 ( pounds 3,900) yesterday, despite giving a written apology, for calling German football federation officials 'brainless jurists' after they ordered Bayern Munich, of whom he is manager, to replay a league game.

AUSTRALIA will play in the Japanese three-nation Kirin Cup with Japan and France. They replace Argentina who withdrew after Diego Maradona was refused a visa.